Reasons
In the nonfiction Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie had reasons on why he wrote the book. The reasons are people ask him how he survived the Holocaust; He says he doesn’t know how he survived. He didn’t do anything to save himself. He wanted to leave behind a legacy of words to help prevent history from repeating itself. He doesn’t know if it was simply to preserve a record of the ordeal he endured as an adolescent where at an age when one’s knowledge of death and evil should be limited to what one discovers in literature. He needed to give some meaning to his survival. He knows that without this testimony his life would not have become what it is which is a witness who believes he has a obligation to try to prevent the enemy from enjoying his victory. For the first time in history, Jews were not only killed twice but denied burial in a cemetery. He knew he must bear witness. Only those who experienced Auschwitz know what is was. Others will never know. He says one could not keep silent no matter how difficult it was to speak. He says knowing all the while that any one of the fields of ashes in Birkenau carries more weight than all the testimonies about Birkenau. He was so naïve that he knew books no longer have the power they once did, and people who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow. He feels that books have a destiny. For the survivor who chooses to testify, he has a duty which is to bear witness for the dead and the living. They should not forget the dead because the dead would be use to killing them a second time. Most of all, the children who will be born tomorrow, they do not want their past to become their future.
Assignment 2: Holocaust Web Search
Night Web Search Background Information for the Holocaust
Use the following websites for a quick overview of the following terms and people. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/
Topics to Know
Questions
Answers
Nazi Propaganda
Who is Joseph Goebbels?
List three things the Nazis did to ensure that their views were shown/heard in the most persuasive manner possible.
Joseph Goebbels was in charge of the propaganda. The Nazis decided if you had the right manner to become a member. You could only see, read, and hear what the Nazis wanted you to see, hear, and read. If you believed them, the Nazis assumed being against them would be very small.
Kristallnacht/ The Final Solution/ Wannsee Conference
The Kristallnacht happened on November 9-10,1938. The word means “The Night of the Broken Glass.” The Kristallnacht is a reference to the untold numbers of broken windows of Jew’s temples, stores, community centers, and houses destroyed and burned.
The Victims
Besides the Jewish people, list seven other groups were also targets/victims of the Holocaust?
Briefly tell the fate of each group under Nazi rule.
The targeted people were the gypsies, people with disabilities, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, and afro-Germans. They heard racial threats of a German Society.
The Ghettos
Describe the three types of ghettos, their purpose, and locations.
The three types of ghettos are the open ghettos, closed ghettos, and destruction ghettos. They were in Lublin, Kovno, and many other places. The purpose of ghettos was to make the Jews live in miserable conditions. They were frequently engaged in illegal activities, smuggling food.
Labor camps were served as temporary served stations. Death camps were built for mass murder .The conditions were people were dying of starvation and diseases. The ways of killing were using Zylon B poison gas.
The Soviet Union came and then the Allies. Near the end of the war Hitler commited suicide. There were 24 defendants charged, and represented cross-section of German Military leadership, and were persecuted.
Assignment 3: Images of Night
Gas Chambers
Gas Chambers
Intimadeted and Horrific
Digusting, Shouting, terrifying
Like yells of animals wanting to fugitive and tasting like conflageration
a gassy coffin for the Nazis
because of religion from Hitler
Table of Contents
Afshan L. Night Assignments
Assignment 1: Reasons for Writing
Reasons
In the nonfiction Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie had reasons on why he wrote the book. The reasons are people ask him how he survived the Holocaust; He says he doesn’t know how he survived. He didn’t do anything to save himself. He wanted to leave behind a legacy of words to help prevent history from repeating itself. He doesn’t know if it was simply to preserve a record of the ordeal he endured as an adolescent where at an age when one’s knowledge of death and evil should be limited to what one discovers in literature. He needed to give some meaning to his survival. He knows that without this testimony his life would not have become what it is which is a witness who believes he has a obligation to try to prevent the enemy from enjoying his victory. For the first time in history, Jews were not only killed twice but denied burial in a cemetery. He knew he must bear witness. Only those who experienced Auschwitz know what is was. Others will never know. He says one could not keep silent no matter how difficult it was to speak. He says knowing all the while that any one of the fields of ashes in Birkenau carries more weight than all the testimonies about Birkenau. He was so naïve that he knew books no longer have the power they once did, and people who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow. He feels that books have a destiny. For the survivor who chooses to testify, he has a duty which is to bear witness for the dead and the living. They should not forget the dead because the dead would be use to killing them a second time. Most of all, the children who will be born tomorrow, they do not want their past to become their future.
Assignment 2: Holocaust Web Search
Night Web Search
Background Information for the Holocaust
Use the following websites for a quick overview of the following terms and people.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/
List three things the Nazis did to ensure that their views were shown/heard in the most persuasive manner possible.
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/propaganda_in_nazi_germany.htm
Joseph Goebbels was in charge of the propaganda. The Nazis decided if you had the right manner to become a member. You could only see, read, and hear what the Nazis wanted you to see, hear, and read. If you believed them, the Nazis assumed being against them would be very small.
Wannsee Conference
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/kristallnacht/
Who attended and what was decided at the Wannsee Conference?
What was the Final Solution?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005477
Briefly tell the fate of each group under Nazi rule.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007457
CLUE: Begin reading at “Targeted Groups”
The targeted people were the gypsies, people with disabilities, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, and afro-Germans. They heard racial threats of a German Society.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005059
What was life like in the ghettos?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007445
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005144
What were the conditions?
What different types of extermination were performed?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005145
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005131
What did Hitler do near the end of the war?
How many defendants were charged during the Nuremberg Trials? What did they represent?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007143
What did the International Military Tribunal decide was not a legitimate defense?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007142
Assignment 3: Images of Night
Gas ChambersGas Chambers
Intimadeted and Horrific
Digusting, Shouting, terrifying
Like yells of animals wanting to fugitive and tasting like conflageration
a gassy coffin for the Nazis
because of religion from Hitler